Re: Blockbusting news, results get worse

Pavel Machek
2003-10-26T09:41:30Z

Hi!

> > 4. When writing ZEROES to the bad sector, the drive reports SUCCESS.
> > But it lies. Subsequent attempts to read still fail. Subsequent writing of
> > zeroes appears to succeed again. Subsequent attempts to read still fail.
>
> > I still have to say, we can't fix Toshiba, and we can avoid Toshiba, but
> > meanwhile we can fix Linux.
>
> How do you suggest we 'fix' 4, above, other than to flush the cache
> and verify each time a full sector of zeros is written to the disk?

Well,

if (drive_is_toshiba())
panic("Forward harddrive to nearest trashcan.\n");

during bootup?

Reporting sucess when it is not, is, umm, bad.
Pavel

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